<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Food for a thought today, not
tomorrow</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Human Rights Reader 255</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>IMPLICITLY, IN HUMAN
RIGHTS PARLANCE, WE CONSTANTLY SPEAK OF SAVING THE PLANET FOR THE NEXT
GENERATION WHEN, IN REALITY, WE ARE TALKING ABOUT SAVING OUR GENERATION AND
OURSELVES<span style="font-size:19px">.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:19px"></span></b>So, let’s stop talking bout our
future generations, please. We are talking about our own generation. We also
have to stop talking and rather start yelling. For now, our leaders have not
yet heard us/cannot yet hear us. We have to wean ourselves of the ‘Scarlett
O’hara Syndrome’, i.e., “Today I will not think about this; I’ll think about it
tomorrow”.<span style="font-size:14.0pt"> </span><span style="font-size:15px">(Susan George)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:19px">We are living under a profoundly immoral
system in which the guilty are rewarded and the innocent are punished; in which
benefits are privatized and losses are socialized. Ultimately, protecting the
innocent and punishing the guilty is a question of public morale.</span>                                             </span><span>                   </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt"></span></p>


<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">For the full Reader go to</span></p>


<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.socialmedicine.org/2011/01/21/human-rights/implicitly-in-human-rights-parlance-we-constantly-speak-of-saving-the-planet-for-the-next-generation-when-in-reality-we-are-talking-about-saving-our-generation-and-ourselves/" target="_blank">http://www.socialmedicine.org/2011/01/21/human-rights/implicitly-in-human-rights-parlance-we-constantly-speak-of-saving-the-planet-for-the-next-generation-when-in-reality-we-are-talking-about-saving-our-generation-and-ourselves/</a> </p>

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